Past Exhibitions


SUNY Design Invitational
April - May

SUNY Design Invitational is a traveling exhibition curated by Tim Massey and Mitchell Christensen from SUNY Brockport. The virtual exhibition will be available in an electronic format on our website, Facebook and Instagram.


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Forbidden Regions
January 27 - February 28

Forbidden Regions is a collaborative project between Eric Edlund, an experimental physicist from the Physics Department at SUNY Cortland, and Jaroslava Prihodova, visual artist and director of the Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland. The series of drawings capture the integrated motion of an experimental device created by Eric Edlund to model microscopic quantum mechanical systems on a macroscopic scale using hanging masses and springs. A sequence of coupled pendula, spanning 20 feet, is driven with a continuous pattern of oscillations at variable frequencies. A spatially varying electric potential, as may be found in an atom, for example, is represented by a variation in the length of the pendula. This non-uniformity leads to wave tunneling, the process whereby quantum particles can pass through forbidden regions, and illustrates the nature of radioactive decay, among other phenomena. 


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Measured Confluence
January 27 - February 28

Measured Confluence is an interdisciplinary, international group exhibition. The project features works combining physics, fine art, and performance in a collection of three-dimensional objects, installations, drawings, and digital media video installations that introduces artists from the US, the Czech Republic, and Bosnia.


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Pavel Mrkus: Processor
January 27 - February 28

This video projection is a part of the Measured Confluence exhibition presented in the main gallery space on view until February 28.


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Care, Crisis, Climate, and Debt
October 29-December 13, 2019

Care, Crisis, Climate, and Debt is a student exhibition on view at the Old Main Colloquium comprised of thirteen digital prints on the theme of current social, political, and economic issues.


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TeaYoun Kim-Kassor: Shibori-zome
October14 - December 6, 2019

Works displayed at the Daniels Foyer Gallery are part of a solo exhibition, Beyond Places in Time by TeaYoun Kim-Kassor, featured in the main gallery spaces.


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TeaYoun Kim-Kassor: Beyond Places in Time
October 14 - December 6, 2019

The Dowd Gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring sculptural objects and two-dimensional pieces by a South Korean artist, TeaYoun Kim-Kassor. 


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The Power of Faces: Looking at the Refugee Crisis: Theresa Menders & Daniel Farber Huang
September 16 - October 17, 2019

The Power of Faces portrait project intentionally crops out the context of refugee camps to focus on individuals, and not merely their label as “refugees”.

This program is organized and sponsored by the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, the Departments of History, Modern Languages, and the Spanish Club


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Jeremy Tarr: Forsaken Ecologies
August 26 - October 11, 2019

Series of works displayed at the Daniels Foyer Gallery and the installation showcased in the Critique Space are representing recent projects by Jeremy Tarr. 


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Selected Works: Pieces from the Permanent Collection
August 26 - October 4, 2019

The Dowd Gallery opens the 2019-20 academic year with an exhibition comprised of artworks from its permanent collection including paintings, prints, and sculptures. Selected Works: Pieces from the Permanent Collection exhibition will be on display from August 26 to October 4, 2019.

The show features 76 objects form the following artists:

Ansel Adams, Yaacov Agam, David Ahlsted, Clayton Anderson, Carl Andre, Karel Appel, John Baldessari, Leonard Beck, Robert Birmelin, Richard Bosman, Harvey Breverman, Dorothy Byer, Paul Cezanne, Zaccharie Charvolin, Val Cushing, Salvador Dalí, Hui Fang, Henry Gernhardt, Leon Golub, Frank Goodnow, Stanley William Hayter, Hegedűs 2 László, Jenny Holzer, John Jessiman, Steven Kemenfly, Ernst Kirchner, Vera Klement, Barbara Kruger, Le Corbusier, Wei Li, Craig MacPherson, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Henri Matisse, Peter Max, Michael Mazur, George McNeil, Peter Milton, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, John Newman, Alexander Peroutka, Pablo Picasso, Justin Pribulick, Heather Ramsdale, Ray Parker, Georges Rouault, Edward Ruscha, Kent Rush, Erin Schiano, Richard Serra, Changzhong Shao, Maurice de Vlaminck.


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Dowd Fine Arts Center, Room 106,
48 Graham Avenue and Prospect Terrace Cortland, NY 13045

Phone: 607-753-4216
Fax: 607-753-5934
Contact:
Scott Oldfield, Interim Director
scott.oldfield@cortland.edu

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Thr: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

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